2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in Maine

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Painting is the 517th most popular major in the country with 646 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Maine, there were 10 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 painting graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,463 and $30,985 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in painting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in painting.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Painting in Maine

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Maine College of Art
Portland, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Maine College of Art landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Portland, Maine, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s painting degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Maine College of Art Painting Report

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University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Painting Major in Maine list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s painting students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Painting at University of Southern Maine

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jorge Royan.